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  2. James Webb Space Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The telescope is named after James E. Webb, who was the administrator of NASA from 1961 to 1968 during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Webb's primary mirror consists of 18 hexagonal mirror segments made of gold -plated beryllium , which together create a 6.5-meter-diameter (21 ft) mirror, compared with Hubble's 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in).

  3. Timeline of the James Webb Space Telescope - Wikipedia

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    12 July 2022: JWST's first full-color images and spectroscopic data were released during a televised broadcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

  4. Alaska Airlines Flight 2059 - Wikipedia

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    Alaska Airlines Flight 2059 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Horizon Air for Alaska Airlines that was traveling from Paine Field in Everett, Washington, to San Francisco International Airport on October 22, 2023, when an off-duty pilot deadheading in the jump seat of the cockpit reportedly attempted to crash the plane by disabling its engines.

  5. Watch live: NASA shares first images from James Webb Space ...

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    NASA on Tuesday will share the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope, developed by NASA alongside the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, is the largest ...

  6. James Webb Space Telescope's first pictures of Mars could ...

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    The JWST has captured its first Mars pictures, and they could reveal more about the planet's atmosphere. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...

  7. Near Earth Network - Wikipedia

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    NEN uses several stations run by NASA: Alaska Satellite Facility in Fairbanks, Alaska— Supports: S/X Band — Assets: 11.3m/11m/9.1m; Kennedy Uplink Station, Merritt Island Launch Annex (MILA)— Supports: S-band - Assets: 6.1m; McMurdo, Antarctica— Supports: S/X Band — Assets: 10m

  8. NASA releases Webb telescope images of a galactic merger - AOL

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    NASA released on Friday a pair of images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope showing two galaxies - one nicknamed the Penguin and the other the Egg - in the process of merging in sort of a ...

  9. Launch and commissioning of the James Webb Space Telescope

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    The telescope is named after James E. Webb, who was the administrator of NASA from 1961 to 1968 during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. The launch (designated Ariane flight VA256) took place as scheduled at 12:20 UTC on 25 December 2021 on an Ariane 5 rocket that lifted off from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.